BIB_ID
361562
Accession number
MA 1029.184
Creator
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.
Display Date
1819 Aug. 24.
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr., 1925.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 24.7 cm
Notes
Docketed.
Part of a large collection of letters from Thomas Jefferson to his daughter Martha. Letters in the collection are described in individual records; see main record for MA 1029 for details.
To "my dear daughter."
Part of a large collection of letters from Thomas Jefferson to his daughter Martha. Letters in the collection are described in individual records; see main record for MA 1029 for details.
To "my dear daughter."
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Watermark: Edmeads & Co.
Provenance
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr. from Fanny Burke, 1925.
Summary
Proposing his travel plans for his return to Monticello the following month; reporting that he is "much recovered from my rheumatism" but saying he is "too weak to sit up the whole day, and afraid to increase the weakness by lying down, I longed for a Siesta chair which would have admitted the medium position;" asking her to send the one made by Johnny Hemings and instructing her on how it should be wrapped for the journey on the cart.
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